I ordered a little Musical Fidelity V-DAC (the original, not the V2) and
attached it to the Touch via Coax. I didn't really expect much, but It
is putting out jaw dropping sound. Not quite as good as the sound from
a Mac/Amarra/Wavelength, but close. Far better than I would have
dreamed.
Just
paul.raulerson;663196 Wrote:
One question, is there anyway to attach a USB DAC to a Squeezebox
device?
-Paul
The Touch is not designed for this but there are some folks
experimenting with this, but it is not straightforward and there still
seem to be some kinks. see this thread to
garym;663235 Wrote:
The Touch is not designed for this but there are some folks
experimenting with this, but it is not straightforward and there still
seem to be some kinks. see this thread to start:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82110highlight=usb+dac
Confounded! I did
Phil Leigh;662872 Wrote:
I wasn't being cynical, merely pointing out a fact. The whole reason
the SB line of products exist is to absolutely avoid having to use any
kind of PC as a player or audio source.
The Touch as a player sonically exceeds what is generally possible with
a computer
Phil Leigh;662876 Wrote:
Mad as a box of frogs.
LOL!
Well, if you are in the Austin area, stop by al listen to our modest
system. I'll bet you a cold beer you won't have any trouble at all
hearing the difference between players and even some cables. :)
-Paul
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paul.raulerson
paul.raulerson;663043 Wrote:
Ehh sorry then. That is actually the kind of information I was looking
for. Went ahead and ordered one from Amazon yesterday, it should be
delivered today. :)
I probably fall in that mid-level camp, where I can hear differences
between DACs - even relatively
garym;663046 Wrote:
Yes, SbS (running on vortexbox, windows, mac, etc.) will play gapless
just fine. So I'm a bit confused by your comment that on vortexbox, you
don't get gapless. I use vortexbox appliance for my main system and
win7(64) for a second system. And the iphone/ipad interfaces
paul.raulerson;663049 Wrote:
If you bring up the Vortexbox player on the server, bring up the
Squeezebox remote app, select an album and play it, the Vortexbox
player inserts a gap between gapless tracks.
Turns out, as I understand it, that if you use mPod or another native
MPD
garym;663051 Wrote:
I don't use the vortexbox player that is part of the vortexbox system,
so I can't speak to gapless on that. But vortexbox OS (just a special OS
setup with fedora linux) storing my music and running SqueezeboxServer
feeds all my hardware SB players (or SqueezePlay,
garym;663053 Wrote:
and I should note that I have regular separate FLAC files (that is, I
don't use single album flac files with CUE sheets, etc.). Again,
perfect gapless play (and I have lots of live concerts, etc. that are
gapless).
That's what I wanted to hear! I plan on going home this
paul.raulerson;663135 Wrote:
That's what I wanted to hear! I plan on going home this evening and
having a good listen!
-Paul
enjoy! I think you'll be impressed with the Touch.
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garym
System 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) SbS 7.6.2 Transporter,
Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all
garym;663151 Wrote:
enjoy! I think you'll be impressed with the Touch.
Wow- color me impressed. It does not sound as good as the Mac does
playing though my little Proton, but it sounds -damn close-.
Listening to the Soundtrack from Twin Peaks right now, and the guitar
has a lot of slam and
Phil Leigh;662363 Wrote:
no... You can't get a free squeezebox by using a PC instead.
Wow- a bit cynical there aren't we?
Mostly there is no local store carrying the Squeezebox Touch, or as far
as i can see, any Squeezebox products, so there is no way at all to hear
one before buying. You
You test drive squeezeplay for usability, but not for sound that is
obvius ,it sounds like your computer :)
A good thing with the squeezebox system streaming to dedicated hardware
is that it is independent of the computers sound system. The server
computer does not even need working sound at all
paul.raulerson;662843 Wrote:
Wow- a bit cynical there aren't we?
Mostly there is no local store carrying the Squeezebox Touch, or as far
as i can see, any Squeezebox products, so there is no way at all to hear
one before buying. You may say that $300 is not that much money, and it
I've often noted that if I didn't already have my TRANSPORTER, I would
have never purchased it after getting my first TOUCH. And the
Transporter was maybe 5 times the cost of the TOUCH and purpose built
as an audiophile digital music transport.
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garym
System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10)
Amarra , they are in my snake oil list , read the manual they seriously
says that email on the same computer as used for music can impact sound
quality :)
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Mnyb
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621
Mnyb;662875 Wrote:
Amarra , they are in my snake oil list , read the manual they seriously
says that email on the same computer as used for music can impact sound
quality :)
Mad as a box of frogs.
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't
What do you mean by autoswitch ??
Touch outputs the signals own sample rate if you feed it 44.1 it is
what would appear on the output likevise with any other rate up to
96kHz if you have material at 192khz or 176.4khz it will be down
sampled by Squeezeboxserver to fit the player, output is
Mnyb;662360 Wrote:
What do you mean by autoswitch ??
Touch outputs the signals own sample rate if you feed it 44.1 it is
what would appear on the output likevise with any other rate up to
96kHz if you have material at 192khz or 176.4khz it will be down
sampled by Squeezeboxserver to fit
Is it possible to get autoswitched sample rates and bit perfect output
from Squeezeplay, on either Macs or Windows?
Also, does the SQ Touch autoswitch sample rates?
THanks
-Paul
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paul.raulerson
paul.raulerson's
Not really it depends a lot on the computer in use SqueezePlay may be
48k only nowdays ?
it has no interface to select soundcard or any sound settings like
kernel streaming or asio etc , thats one of the reasons it is beta. it
originated as as development tool and have limits.
The never made a
no... You can't get a free squeezebox by using a PC instead.
--
Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...
Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103
- full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's,
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